Tour Description

With Rome Private Guides you have the privilege to access Sistine Chapel in private when the crowd leave. It will be only you and the other participants of our group that will be a maximum of 15 people.

Thousands of visitors come to Rome to see the Vatican, which means huge crowds inside the Museums. Choosing Rome Private Guides, you won’t need to worry neither about crowds nor a short time tour. Our knowledgeable guides will lead you through the Vatican extended itinerary, providing you special access tickets to avoid long lines.

You will start your semi private Vatican tour at 3:30 pm visiting the common Galleries, Raphael’s Rooms and the Restricted Areas of the Vatican Museums.

You will then proceed to the Sistine Chapel, where Rome Private Guides offers you the chance to enter alone, sharing this incredible experience only with the members of our group, up to 15 people.

In fact, you will gain access after general public has gone.

Also, since Sistine Chapel will be the last stop of your Tour, you will have more time than usual (normally 20 to 30 minutes) to admire Michelangelo breathtaking ceiling and the worldwide famous Last Judgement without any noise around.

However, you won’t visit only Sistine Chapel.

This exclusive Tour includes sites usually close to the general public such as the Chapel of Nicholas V, painted by Fra Angelico and Benozzo Gozzoli in 1447. This chapel preserved the amazing frescoes representing the life of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence. Among the unique restricted areas, you will also see the Bramante Staircase, commissioned by the Pope Julius the II and projected by the first architect of the Basilica of St. Peter’s, called Donato Bramante.

The Bramante Staircase is an amazing project realized in the 1500s: a double helix staircase that enables people to go up and down at the same time without meeting each other. Guests of the Pope were also allowed to do it on their horses. In the last restricted area of the Cabinet of the Masks you will be stunned by mosaics from Hadrian’s Villa inserted on the floor and beautiful roman statues.

On your visit you will also walk through the magnificent Gallery of the Candelabra, Gallery of the Maps and Gallery of Tapestry, in order to reach Raphael’s Rooms, painted by Raphael for the Pope Julius the II.

Do not miss the VIP opportunity to stay with your intimate group inside the Sistine Chapel, once the throng of the day left, absorbed in the majesty and grace of Michelangelo frescoes.

You will be able to be by yourself for about 20 to 30 minutes and contemplate the ceiling of the vault of the Sistine Chapel with the Creation of the world, Noah’s life and the Last Judgment, painted when Michelangelo was already 61 years old.

The VIP Vatican after-hours Tour it is definitely a unique, once in a lifetime experience, you cannot miss of visiting the Vatican museums in such a special way.

Itinerary

Gallery of the Candelabra

Gallery of the Maps

Gallery of Tapestry

Raphael’s Rooms

Niccolin Chapel

Bramante Staircase

Cabinet of the Masks

Sistine Chapel

This tour includes

3 hours English-speaking guide

Skip the line tickets for the Vatican Museums

Special access to the restricted areas of the Vatican (Bramante Stairs, Niccoline Chapel and Cabinet of the Masks

Special visit of the Sistine Chapel in a semi private tour

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Important Info

meeting point:

In front of the entrance to the Vatican Museums, by the marble arch at the bottom of the steps

other information:

PLEASE NOTE: in case the Basilica of St. Peter is closed for religious functions, you will spend longer time in the Vatican galleries with your private guide. The Basilica is a Church and as such the Vatican can decide to use it for religious functions without notice.

DRESS CODE: Please must make sure they can cover their knees and shoulders. Entry might be refused in the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Church, if you fail to follow the Vatican's dress code.

Itinerary

Gallery of the Candelabra

Gallery of the Maps

Gallery of Tapestry

Raphael’s Rooms

Niccolin Chapel

Bramante Staircase

Cabinet of the Masks

Sistine Chapel

This tour includes

3 hours English-speaking guide

Skip the line tickets for the Vatican Museums

Special access to the restricted areas of the Vatican (Bramante Stairs, Niccoline Chapel and Cabinet of the Masks